The Division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in association with the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences [CLASS], is organizing a one-day international postgraduate conference on the subject of “rupture” in literature on 6 June 2011.

Jointly sponsored by: University of Paris-Diderot; Centre Culturel de l’Entente Cordiale, Château d’Hardelot at Condette and Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3; Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent; Dickens Museum and the University of Leicester

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http://dickens2012.org/TaleofFourCitiesConference.html

The aim of this week-long travelling conference is to celebrate the bicentenary of Dickens's birth, which falls on 7 February 2012, in a manner befitting a writer who has given so much to so many arou